November 2, 2012

By

Warren Miller

A few months more than a hundred years ago, in the small French village of Megeve, a baker’s wife had a son named Emile.

In the last week, a lot of newspapers and some television news have chronicled the death of 100-year-old Emile Allais. They write about him winning two world championships in the downhill and slalom ski races in 1936 and 1937, as well as an Olympic gold medal in 1936. He would have won a third year in a row if he had not broken his ankle.

October 19, 2012

In the early 1970s, I was producing a movie for my old friend Bob Maynard, the President of Keystone, Colo., at the time. I had met Bob in 1944 when I was skiing at Badger Pass in Yosemite.

I was in the Navy and stationed in San Francisco at the time. I had hitch-hiked to Yosemite for the weekend and paid my $3 to rent skis and boots for the day. Bob Maynard handed me my rental ski boots of soft leather with turned up box toes.

October 12, 2012

Just like every other man in America during the time, I too registered for the draft on my 18th birthday in 1942.

I immediately enlisted in the Naval Officer’s Training Program and was in school when the Normandy invasion took place.

I had just received my commission a month before the horrific battle on a small island in the Pacific, called Iwo Jima. During that battle, near the end of March and into April of 1945, I was in my final training for duty aboard a 110-foot wooden-hulled sub-chaser.

October 5th

October 5, 2012

By

Warren Miller

Sometimes the complicated mathematics of choosing what to write about in my weekly column bogs me down, and I have trouble getting started.

Life changes even as I look out my window at Pole Pass, and watch the occasional southbound boat that cruised an extra week, or two hundred more miles north. The weather has been as close to perfect as possible for almost two months straight, and the fortunate retired people who aren’t worried about mowing the lawn in front of their condominium have really been enjoying the extra time on their boats this summer.

October 5, 2012

Mammoth High School tennis player Jade DaCosta is this week’s Athlete of the Week. A junior, Jade is in her third year on the team. She won two of three sets against Desert last weekend. She also won her singles match against Bishop in an intense, close match.

Says Athletic Director Christopher Powell, “Jade competes day-in and day-out. Keep up the good work Jade! We will be watching your progress this season!”

September 30th

September 30, 2012

Boron's Bobcats had a homecoming Friday night, and the most welcome guests turned out to be the Mammoth Huskies.

Boron beat up on the undermanned Huskies, 52-0, behind a stellar performance by quarterback Austyn Fink. The senior went 13-for-20, with five touchdowns. The only blemish on his record was because of Mammoth's Tyler Wormhoudt, who intercepted Fink in the lost cause.